Books with author Dale Stephenson

Big Data is a big topic, based on simple principles. Guided by leading expert in the field, David Stephenson, you will be amazed at how you can transform your company, and significantly improve KPIs across a broad range of business units and applications.Find out how an ecommerce company avoided two million product returns per year, how a newspaper saw triple-digit annual growth in digital subscriptions, how researchers in England learned to better detect pending cardiovascular problems, and how AI programs taught themselves to win games using techniques that even their human programmers didn’t understand, all thanks to big data. Find out also how one company realized it could swap a million dollar hardware system with a twenty thousand dollar replacement. With simple and straightforward chapters that allow you to map examples onto your own business, Big Data Demystified will help you:· Know which data is most useful to collect now and why it’s important to start collecting that data as soon as possible.· Understand big data and data science and how they can help you reach your business goals and gain competitive advantage.· Use big data to understand where you are now and how you can improve in the future. · Understand factors in choosing a big data system, including whether to go with cloud-based solutions.· Construct your big data team in a way that supports an effective strategy and helps make your business more data-driven.BIG DATA MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE“Read this book! It is an essential guide to using data in a practical way that drives results." Ian McHenry, CEO Beyond Pricing“This is the book we’ve been missing: big data explained without the complexity.” Marc Salomon, Professor in Decision Sciences and Dean at University of Amsterdam Business School"Big Data for the rest of us! I have never come across a book that is so full of practical advice, actionable examples and helpful explanations. Read this one book and start executing Big Data at your workplace tomorrow!"Tobias Wann CEO at @Leisure Group

Big Data is a big topic, based on simple principles. Guided by leading expert in the field, David Stephenson, you will be amazed at how you can transform your company, and significantly improve KPIs across a broad range of business units and applications. Find out how an ecommerce company avoided two million product returns per year, how a newspaper saw triple-digit annual growth in digital subscriptions, how researchers in England learned to better detect pending cardiovascular problems, and how AI programs taught themselves to win games using techniques that even their human programmers didn’t understand, all thanks to big data. Find out also how one company realized it could swap a million dollar hardware system with a twenty thousand dollar replacement. With simple and straightforward chapters that allow you to map examples onto your own business, Big Data Demystified will help you: · Know which data is most useful to collect now and why it’s important to start collecting that data as soon as possible. · Understand big data and data science and how they can help you reach your business goals and gain competitive advantage. · Use big data to understand where you are now and how you can improve in the future. · Understand factors in choosing a big data system, including whether to go with cloud-based solutions. · Construct your big data team in a way that supports an effective strategy and helps make your business more data-driven. BIG DATA MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE “Read this book! It is an essential guide to using data in a practical way that drives results." Ian McHenry, CEO Beyond Pricing “This is the book we’ve been missing: big data explained without the complexity.” Marc Salomon, Professor in Decision Sciences and Dean at University of Amsterdam Business School "Big Data for the rest of us! I have never come across a book that is so full of practical advice, actionable examples and helpful explanations. Read this one book and start executing Big Data at your workplace tomorrow!" Tobias Wann CEO at @Leisure Group

An urgent, on-the-ground look at some of the “new American radicals” who have laid everything on the line to build a stronger climate justice movementThe science is clear: catastrophic climate change, by any humane definition, is upon us. At the same time, the fossil-fuel industry has doubled down, economically and politically, on business as usual. We face an unprecedented situation—a radical situation. As an individual of conscience, how will you respond?In 2010, journalist Wen Stephenson woke up to the true scale and urgency of the catastrophe bearing down on humanity, starting with the poorest and most vulnerable everywhere, and confronted what he calls “the spiritual crisis at the heart of the climate crisis.” Inspired by others who refused to retreat into various forms of denial and fatalism, he walked away from his career in mainstream media and became an activist, joining those working to build a transformative movement for climate justice in America.In What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other, Stephenson tells his own story and offers an up-close, on-the-ground look at some of the remarkable and courageous people—those he calls “new American radicals”—who have laid everything on the line to build and inspire this fast-growing movement: old-school environmentalists and young climate-justice organizers, frontline community leaders and Texas tar-sands blockaders, Quakers and college students, evangelicals and Occupiers. Most important, Stephenson pushes beyond easy labels to understand who these people really are, what drives them, and what they’re ultimately fighting for. He argues that the movement is less like environmentalism as we know it and more like the great human-rights and social-justice struggles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from abolitionism to civil rights. It’s a movement for human solidarity.This is a fiercely urgent and profoundly spiritual journey into the climate-justice movement at a critical moment—in search of what climate justice, at this late hour, might yet mean.

An urgent, on-the-ground look at some of the “new American radicals” who have laid everything on the line to build a stronger climate justice movementThe science is clear: catastrophic climate change, by any humane definition, is upon us. At the same time, the fossil-fuel industry has doubled down, economically and politically, on business as usual. We face an unprecedented situation—a radical situation. As an individual of conscience, how will you respond?In 2010, journalist Wen Stephenson woke up to the true scale and urgency of the catastrophe bearing down on humanity, starting with the poorest and most vulnerable everywhere, and confronted what he calls “the spiritual crisis at the heart of the climate crisis.” Inspired by others who refused to retreat into various forms of denial and fatalism, he walked away from his career in mainstream media and became an activist, joining those working to build a transformative movement for climate justice in America.In What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other, Stephenson tells his own story and offers an up-close, on-the-ground look at some of the remarkable and courageous people—those he calls “new American radicals”—who have laid everything on the line to build and inspire this fast-growing movement: old-school environmentalists and young climate-justice organizers, frontline community leaders and Texas tar-sands blockaders, Quakers and college students, evangelicals and Occupiers. Most important, Stephenson pushes beyond easy labels to understand who these people really are, what drives them, and what they’re ultimately fighting for. He argues that the movement is less like environmentalism as we know it and more like the great human-rights and social-justice struggles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from abolitionism to civil rights. It’s a movement for human solidarity.This is a fiercely urgent and profoundly spiritual journey into the climate-justice movement at a critical moment—in search of what climate justice, at this late hour, might yet mean.

Phew... being Santa is tough work! One Christmas Eve, after finishing his toy delivering Santa decides that it's time for him to take a much needed, year long break. Unbeknownst to him however, Jimmy (a normally VERY good boy) finds out about this trip... and the fact that Santa won't be around to see how he acts! Will Jimmy spend the year on his best behavior like normal - or will he be terrible just because he can? Written by Alex Stephenson, a therapist and father of two - The Year Santa Went on Vacation is a Christmas story with a message that can be enjoyed all year long. The light-hearted poem will entertain you and your little ones as you see how Jimmy and Santa choose to spend their year VERY differently than normal - while also helping to teach that there is more than one reason to be a nice person.

Jack is a penguin. After an embarrassing childhood experience, he is afraid of fishing. One day, when his best friend Adam the polar bear asks him to go - he tries to think of every excuse possible to avoid what might be another humiliating outing. Adam and Jack: The Fear of Fishing aims to help children understand and battle anxiety. Teaching new ways to view situations, and enforcing the value of healthy support systems, Adam helps Jack learn how to take a step back and appreciate how beautiful life can be - instead of only worrying about what he'll look like if things don't go perfectly. Adam and Jack: The Fear of Fishing is the second book in the Adam and Jack series. Written by Alex Stephenson, a licensed professional counselor and father of two - these books aim to help children understand and work through challenging life experiences. Giving easy to explain situations and easy to teach coping skills, these books are a valuable tool for parents, teachers, and anyone else wishing to help the little ones in their life through trying times.

On April 15, 1943 Camp Ellis opened and over the next couple of years 130,000 troops were trained there and 5000 German prisoners of war were housed there. This 20,000 acre camp which contained 2,200 buildings was built in the middle of farmland in Illinois and closed down in December 1945. Over the next five years it was used sparingly by the National Guard in the summertime. In 1949 Ronnie twelve years old and Larry thirteen years old arrived with their family to this deserted camp where their father Colonel Dale Stephenson would be closing the base down preparing for it to be sold to be used as farmland again. Everything had been left intact over the four years that the camp had not been used. The Stephenson brothers explored the camp with the feel of the ghosts from the past soldiers who went through the camp and were lost in the Second World War. Going to school in Ipava, Illinois the closest town of only five hundred people the boys learn to play basketball and their first encounter with girls. The basketball team with the two boys was propelled to a new height that the school and town had never seen.

On April 15, 1943 Camp Ellis opened and over the next couple of years 130,000 troops were trained there and 5000 German prisoners of war were housed there. This 20,000 acre camp which contained 2,200 buildings was built in the middle of farmland in Illinois and closed down in December 1945. Over the next five years it was used sparingly by the National Guard in the summertime. In 1949 Ronnie twelve years old and Larry thirteen years old arrived with their family to this deserted camp where their father Colonel Dale Stephenson would be closing the base down preparing for it to be sold to be used as farmland again. Everything had been left intact over the four years that the camp had not been used. The Stephenson brothers explored the camp with the feel of the ghosts from the past soldiers who went through the camp and were lost in the Second World War. Going to school in Ipava, Illinois the closest town of only five hundred people the boys learn to play basketball and their first encounter with girls. The basketball team with the two boys was propelled to a new height that the school and town had never seen.

The New Dog - A Story About Friendship is the tale of Sandy the dog. Sandy's world is absolutely perfect. She likes her home, she likes her owners, she likes her life. But, when a new face shows up in her world - things get very different, very quickly. In this book, children will learn about friendship, acceptance, and how simply being yourself is the best thing you can be. Watch your child learn with Sandy how friendships can't be forced, and how simply taking the time to learn about others can open up a world of possibilities!